Henri La Fontaine (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Henri La Fontaine (22 April 1854 - 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. He was born on 22 April 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Universit Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority on international law. In 1893, he became professor of international law at the Free University of Brussels and two years later was elected to the Belgian Senate as a member of the Socialist Party. He served as vice chairman of the Senate from 1919 to 1932.